Being Hospitalized For Mental Illness

This is a reblog of one of a post I wrote in early 2014. It is about the two times I was hospitalized for my mental illness problems. While I haven’t been back to the hospital since 2013, it is still relevant and will help for those who have problems with mental illness.

This entry is going to be about the two times I was hospitalized for my schizophrenia. Even though I was officially diagnosed with schizophrenia in 2000, I was never hospitalized for it until the fall of 2006. I was not an Emergency Protective Custody (EPC) case as I self committed voluntarily. I came to the conclusion I needed help because of severe anxiety and flare ups of my paranoia. These were caused by job place problems and several stressful occurrences that happened throughout the year 2006. To start the year 2006, I lost my job at the university and had to leave the MBA program. I had also applied for Social Security Disability Insurance shortly afterward. At the time it was a major blow to my ego and self confidence as I thought it was admitting defeat in my pursuit to be self-supportive. I also had a few…

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I write about my experiences with mental illness and life in general. I am also currently under going 'lifestyle changes' (I hate the term 'dieting' as it's sounds so temporary) and have lost 70 pounds since spring 2014. I've put my poetry and novel writing on lower priority since I started losing weight and blogging more seriously.
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